Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-04
WASHINGTON.
Some Idea Of the Various Duties Re-
CURED Of a Consul Representing
His Country Abroad.
Peculiar Case Under the Naturalization
BaW-The Effect OF the Satur.
day Half Holiday.
Why Dan Lockwood wan Be Unable to
Make CIeveland's Nominating speech
in the Next Convention.
A CONSULAR STORY.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-"No one VINO
has not he'd practical experience has any
idea OF the various duties which 8 consul
representing his country abroad is re
quired to perform, =" said DR.. 81. Clair,
the able chief of the Consular Bureau of
the State Department to your correspon-
dent yesterday. "Not only have they to
look after the commercial interests of
their country, but they have to attend 10
some of the queerest kind of requests
from their COuntrymen ct home. 1t has
more than OECe been the case that COL
sui has been applied TO TO purchase
| peculiar animals found In the country TO
which they are accredited, all the way
| from elephants to rare kinds of lizards.
| Very frequently they are asked to collect
2 number OF specimens Of the sea shells
| peculiar to their part of the world.
| only g short time ago we received
g request from q gentleman in Kentucky
asking that the consul at Barcelona in
! Spain procure for him fine specimen of
the native ass for breeding purposes, the
gentleman being under the impression
tina. that animal attained to large size
IN Spain. The request was forwarded
and the KentuCkian has since received g
very fine animal Of the donkey kind. But
the more frequent requests outside of the
purely commercial duties of the consul
are of purely private and family kind.
Ii g son, daughter, husband or wife goes
astrey, or if Information IS required of the
whereabouts of person OF any degree Of
relationship to the inquirer in q foreign
country, application is 81 once made 70
the representative of this country nearest
20 the place where the missing person is
supposed To be, and the consul Is
asked 70 look him up. Some
very startling rOmanCes have been IN
eaTthed IN this way through the consular
agencies. That was & strange case which
was unearthed some time ago in Florence,
Italy, by Mr. a. Schuyler Crosby, who
wSs then United States consul ct thai
plaCe. one day ne was conducting q
party Of Americans through the principal
places Of interest in the city, aud among
the places visited was the insane asylum.
AZ the party was going through the
wards one Of the inmates of the insti1U-
tiCu suddenly called out 10 Mr. CROSBY:
"O0, sir, you are an5AmeriCaU, are you
aOtI For Gods sake come here a1d
listen TO my story" MIR. Crosby went 60
the cell from whence the piteOUs appesi
came and saw behind the bars 3 woman
much enacis but apparently sane lie
listened 20 e S Org, end afSer making
inqu.resi set himself to york 10 procure
her release, in which he succeeded after
2 great daal OF trouble. Tde Woman's
story was as follows: She was born in
Mobile, Ala, Of wealthy parents, and be
Irg attractive in appearance she had 3
number OF SuitOrs Tor ner hand in mar
riage one day an Italian came to the
city. He was handsome and wrote the
prefix Count before his name. He
soon got himself introduced into the best
circles Of Mobile society, aud by his
pleasant and courteous bearing became
a great favorit9 among the ladies of the
place. He became constant visitor at
the house Of Miss -, the subject
Of this story, and the intimacy began
to ripen into love on the part
Of the young girl. Her parents did not
approve of the match, but the handsome
Italian portrayed in glowing terms the
wealth Of his affection cor her and the
beauties of the lovely F!orentine home
which ne wished her to become the mis-
-ress of. At last his entreaties were
and the young girl was mar
gi-l's parents heard Of it they were
enraged. Her father refused TO have
anything to do with her, and instead of
giving her the fortune he had intended to
De hers, settled or her the sum of $1,000
! year. The young couple started for
europe, but it soon became apparent to
lis wife that her husband was not only
lot in love with her, but that his only
object in marrying her was TO pro-
cure her fortune, and having failed
Il that through the anger of her father
lad no more use fer her. Shortly after
'eaching Florence that "Count" had
hree physicians called in and they made
IN examination of the young girl much to
Ter surprise and terror. On the follow
ng DAY covered wagon came to the door
md she was told to get inside. When
he refused she was seized from behind
nd ruGeIy bound and bsndaged. Size
ainted and when she recovered SIZE
ound herself in the insane asylum.
there she remained for over two years
Continued on Fourth Pdge.